Kauffman FastTrac® teaches innovative, early-stage entrepreneurs how to launch their businesses.

Our next cohort starts on August 5, 2024!

Epicenter is a proud affiliate of Kauffman FastTrac®, an 8-week program designed to help early stage founders refine their business ideas. Constructed with the specific needs of founders with innovation-driven businesses, participants are provided access to educational content, business templates, and tools as founders progress through five modules that mirror the entrepreneurial journey. By the end of the course, you will have developed and refined your entrepreneurial vision into a thoroughly researched and tested business plan.

Gain Knowledge and Skills for Venture Creation and Growth.

IDEATE

Get started making your idea a reality and exploring the journey of becoming an entrepreneur.

POSITION

Position your idea in the market, understand your customers, and solidify your business model.

REFINE

Perfect your strategy before launch and make sure your finances are in order.

COMMIT

Commit to reaching your market, making a sale, and protecting your business

LAUNCH

Plan for launching, leading, and growing your business.

You decide how you want to learn:
Online and self-paced, or with a FastTrac affiliate facilitator in a cohort of your peers.

Facilitator-Led Course

Guided by a facilitator, participants learn from an instructor, guest speakers, and classmates. Our next cohort starts on August 5, 2024.

Self-Paced Course

Coming Soon!

This flexible option is designed to provide information, tips, exercises, and tools to help you refine your business concept.

 Program FAQs

  • FastTrac is for any aspiring or early-stage entrepreneur who is looking for relevant information, real life entrepreneur experiences, and tools to help through your entrepreneurial journey to starting a business.

  • Courses are offered self-paced (online), or with a FastTrac affiliate (in-person, virtually, or blended). Depending on what course you sign up for will depend on what your course looks like.

  • The course content is not industry specific but will be relevant and applicable to anyone looking to launch a business.

  • Self-paced learners have the flexibility to progress through the content at their own pace. The affiliate learner, will follow an agenda provided by the FastTrac affiliate and will last 8-12 weeks. On average, to complete the course from Ideate to Launch, will take approximately 30 hours.

  • Explore our Success Stories, where program graduates share their experiences going through the FastTrac program.

  • We’d be happy to help you answer them! Contact us here or via the form below.

Our Next Cohort
Starts in August!

Enroll in the next cohort and gain access to relevant content and tools to help you succeed with your business.

Our next in-person cohort will take place at Epicenter every Monday from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.